Oh, That Grammar!
(Those otherwise lovely and lively Christian songs that are undermined by bad grammar!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The same power that” raised<\/em> – not “rose” – “Jesus from the dead”! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, the song goads me on with my Grammar Police calling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please! Get that bad grammar straightened out! A whole generation of Christian kids have had their English contorted by this otherwise-fine song!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may say, “He arose” or “He rose” when He is the subject performing the action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But when He is presented as the object of a Power (Father or Spirit, theologically speaking), he, grammatically is “raised” not “rose” from the dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, “The same power that raised <\/em>Jesus from the dead. . . “<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sing it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 April, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, That Grammar! (Those otherwise lovely and lively Christian songs that are undermined by bad grammar!) “The same power that” raised – not “rose” – “Jesus from the dead”! Oh, the song goads me on with my Grammar Police calling. Please! Get that bad grammar straightened out! A whole generation of Christian kids have had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}